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5) Sharing a blind with two of my uncles for only a few short years before dementia changed everything.
4) Begging mom to let me go hunting with dad, and getting the "YES" !
3) Watching a new hunter get his first duck.
2) The setting of the decoys in the early morning and waiting in the blind with good friends trading stories and digs.
1) Being called a true sportsman by my uncle who was a man of few words, a "legend" in local hunting circles, and a mentor to lots of new shooters/hunters over the years. That was my biggest "success" in my mind.

I only have 1

Goose hunting with my 10 year old last year.

- The look on a newbs face when we are driving on the river in complete darkness.
- Heading to our spot in pea soup fog and my daughter asking me should the last three buoys all have the same numbers....
- The sunrise in the marsh.
- The sounds of the hens just before sunrise.
- The look on our faces after emptying two guns and not a bird down.

The reason none of the above are numbered and the most important one....#1 hunting with my daughter!

Looking up and thinking it's safe put the gun down and unzip and all hell breaks loose

I liked the duckstar song :)

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Originally Posted by Gadwall

The stories huh ... if I come up with a list here, it would have to include during a story I was telling when the mallard came around and into the decoys from behind, unnoticed to us, I shot it and sent the dog without even breaking my sentence, and kept right on with the story, didn't even get off my stool ... I don't even remember the story I was telling, but I remember the look on your face.

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I remember that hunt quite well =)

5. The 30-45 min after the decoys are set up and u get to sit an enjoy the peacefulness of the early morning as u wait for legal shooting time and reflecting on how lucky we truly are.
4. The sound of your buddy's gun just going click because he forgot to reload or somebody took the shells out his gun.
3. Being the first one to realize that the only two birds of the morning are megansers and letting a father and son duo nail them and brag about how good of a shot they both made until you present them with their two prized megansers.
2. Getting out for an early season hunt with my wife and twin 9 year old boys....very few hunts all of us together because my one boy is in a wheelchair and he doesn't handle the cold at all.
1. Getting to take my wife on her first duck hunt as a new hunter.
The best part is just good times and good memories with friends and family. Always alot of laughter.

1. turning my first big flock of honkers.
2.getting my first banded goose.
3.enjoying every hunt with my wife.
4.showing up at my blind to see that a beaver had used it for a home base and build a house all around it.
5. realising that full body decoys are better than having just shells on the ground!

scud

putting the boat in at 3 am when the water is calm as glass

putting the boat in at 3 am when the wind is howling and we're second guessing whether to go or not

sleeping in till 6 am... then having breakfast with the boys ... just to launch at 9 ..and have fun anyways

watching a lone mallard cup up , called in by a 5 year old, blowing on a call like a fox forty whistle and actually hitting it... " you got it dad... YOU ACTUALLY hit it" thanks son... lol

taking a young lady for her first heritage day hunt... first hunt ever ... watching her run out of shells, one duck shy of a limit.... loved every min.